25 law firms in 20 states have joined together and formed a consortium to file a class action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. 20 other lawsuits seeking class action status on behalf of consumers have also been filed against Toyota because of accelerator problems that led to a recall of more than 8 million automobiles. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada criticized the American Bar Association on Thursday after some members of the organization’s judicial evaluation committee rated a nominee from his state as “not qualified”. The ABA has evaluated nominees for over 50 years. A 15 member committee rates each nominee as either well qualified, qualified or not [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 1, 2010
On Friday U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco ordered the National Conference of Law Examiners to accommodate Stephanie Enyart, a legally blind law school graduate attempting to take the California Bar exam. Enyart filed a suit against the NCBE after they refused to allow her to use special software during the two multiple [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
In more Obamanomination news, the President has nominated three California lawyers to the United States District Court bench. Edward Chen has been nominated for the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Chen currently serves as a US Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California. He was a staff attorney for the American [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: US District Court Judge Bruce Kauffman is stepping down next week, and will join Philadelphia’s Elliott Greenleaf law firm. Kauffman will co-chair the firm’s executive committee. He is a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. Paul Battaglia joins Williams Kastner in Seattle as of counsel. He handles real estate, leasing, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Two defendants convicted in the Milberg LLP scandal, former partner Steven Schulman and former client Howard J. Vogel, will report to federal prison this week. In 2006, the firm and two of its named partners, David J. Bershad and Schulman, were indicted in US District Court on various counts, including racketeering, mail fraud, and bribery. Prosecutors [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Legal Times Blog reports that a US district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the target of a conspiracy by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to keep him off the presidential ballot. In October 2007, as much of the country began turning its attention to a new and promising presidential showdown, Nader filed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
A husband and wife are suing United Airlines for “overserving” alcohol during a flight from Osaka, Japan to San Francisco, claiming wine served on the plane fueled a violent fight the couple got into after deplaning. Husband Yoichi Shimamoto says he became so inebriated “that he could not manage himself,” according to a lawsuit filed US [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
As we reported earlier today, New York Law School has filed an investor lawsuit against J. Ezra Merkin, one of his funds and its auditor over investments made through Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, whose founder has been charged in a massive Ponzi scheme. Filed in US District Court in Manhattan, the suit alleges recklessness, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Zafar Hasan, a former associate in Foley & Lardner’s Chicago office, can proceed with an employment discrimination suit against the law firm, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals today said. The ruling today overturned a decision by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Hasan, an Indian and a Muslim, alleges in the 2004 [...]
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